The Last Enchantments is a powerfully moving and lyrically written
novel. A young American embarks on a year at Oxford and has an
impassioned affair that will change his life forever
After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line
patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the
campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he
decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious, and
well-connected woman he's been in love with for the last four years.
Will expects nothing more than a year off before resuming the
comfortable life he's always known, but he's soon caught up in a
whirlwind of unexpected friendships and romantic entanglements that
threaten his safe plans. As he explores the heady social world of
Oxford, he becomes fast friends with Tom, his snobbish but affable flat
mate; Anil, an Indian economist with a deep love for gangster rap;
Anneliese, a German historian obsessed with photography; and Timmo,
whose chief ambition is to become a reality television star. What he's
least prepared for is Sophie, a witty, beautiful and enigmatic woman who
makes him question everything he knows about himself.
Charles Finch's The Last Enchantments is a sweeping novel about love
and loss that redefines what it means to grow up as an American in the
twenty-first century.
